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BurningFrogtoday at 4:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Haven't done it, but letting an AI polish a manual first draft might be the best of both worlds?


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wren6991today at 6:02 PM

It tends not to improve things. Besides the generally bland and muddied style, and the low-fidelity reinterpretation of your points, they also have a habit of randomly deleting sentences that didn't spark joy for them but were actually important.

I've found them useful to review docs for factual consistency and potential sources of confusion, but the correct workflow from that point is IMO to correct the draft yourself and then say "better now?"

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Retr0idtoday at 4:54 PM

The "polish" is the worst part!